A plea to classiccmpers

From: chris <cb_at_mythtech.net>
Date: Wed Jan 22 14:28:00 2003

>Before we got DSL at work (we're about 17K feet from the CO) we had to get by
>with a Dialup. Good old PacBell charged us about a penny a minute... DSL _at_
>$99.00 a month is actually cheaper...

We actually has a similar thing here... I had been trying to get DSL put
into the budget for months, and accounting kept saying no. Despite all
the added benifits it would bring us, they didn't want the $250 a month
price tag that I was proposing (this was early DSL, before you could get
it dirt cheap, I was one of the first in my area to get it).

So I was smart. I pulled out the last few months phone bills to show the
cost we were paying to have our "unlimited" dialup line connected all
day. It was connected to the network, and we were running a mail server,
so the only time it hung up was after 11pm, and then it went to
connecting once an hour to update the mail server, until 8am when it came
back up full time again.

Showing them three months of $450 line charges got my $250 a month DSL
put onto the budget with no further complaints.

-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Received on Wed Jan 22 2003 - 14:28:00 GMT

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